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How to install Mandriva 2011.0 x64

Always the graphics cards from ATI have problems with linux, this is because ATI does not release valid drivers; Usually the problems presented themselves after installation and you could solve using the generic vesa driver with the inconvenience of not being able to use 3D effects or the non-free fglrx drivers. With the release of Mandriva 2011.0 the problems for the owners of VGA ATI occur...

How to update the flash player on Mandriva 64bit

Unfortunately, as usual when it comes to Mandriva at 64 bit and flash player are stomach pains. Lately, many sites require updating to the latest version of flash player and as usual in the repository does not exist; on the site of adobe there is a thin illusion, in fact we find the rpm ready for the 64 bit architecture, but installing it does not work, it is because the files are placed in the...

Reconfigure the network interface on linux after changing motherboard

In case you have unfortunately burned the motherboard of your computer and you have luckily replaced it with an identical motherboard your computer will work perfectly without you having to format and reinstall everything. Your Windows operating system will work perfectly, it does not notice anything but on Linux will not be the same... linux will understand that the motherboard has been changed...

Linux, solve the problem "unable to change /file permissions"

We could have to copy some files from the linux home formatted as ext3/ext4 to a windows partition usually formatted an ntfs, in this case the file could be regularly copied from the linux partition to the windows partition but we could have on the screen this message: unable to change /file permissions This happens because the ntfs filesystem, differently from the linux filesystem, does not...

Login as Root in graphical mode on Mandriva

Almost every Linux distribution does not allow you to login as root, that is as superuser, in graphic mode. On Mandriva is easy to ensure that the system allows us to log-in in this way, we have just edit the file kdmrc . If the mandriva distro uses kde3 the kdmrc file is located in the following location: /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc if the mandriva distro uses KDE4 then kdmrc is located in the following...
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